Lord Drayson: A copy was placed in the Library of the House on 5 June and my honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence wrote to the noble Lord on the same day, enclosing a copy of the report.

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: The department has created a series of working groups, comprising medical, technical and stakeholder experts, to advise and assist in the work to transform the personal capability assessment (PCA). The terms of reference and membership of these groups have been placed in the Library.

Lord Hanningfield: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Which Minister within the Department for Trade and Industry has ministerial responsibility for insurance matters relating specifically to the Lloyd's of London insurance market; and
	Which minister within HM Treasury has ministerial responsibility for taxation matters relating specifically to the Lloyd's of London insurance market.

Baroness Scotland of Asthal: No applications have in fact been received this year from Methodist probationers from the United States. Those non-EEA nationals seeking to come to the UK to preach and perform pastoral duties in the UK are considered under the immigration rules for ministers of religion. It is a long-standing requirement of this category that, where relevant, applicants are ordained. Under the current system, probationers who are not ordained would be refused entry to work as ministers of religion. The Government are keen to replace the requirement for ordination with a more flexible pre-entry qualification requirement. On 19 December last year, the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality (Tony McNulty) made a Written Ministerial Statement announcing the Home Office response to the second stage of consultation with faith communities on the immigration provisions for religious workers from abroad (Official Report, cols. WS 162-63). He announced then that we would aim to move to a pre-entry qualification requirement. We have offered to implement this pre-entry qualification requirement early. In order to do this, we need the Christian Churches to establish how they will assess whether each applicant is suitably qualified, and we will be working further with them on this. This offer equally applies to other faith groups who develop their own pre-entry qualification requirements to replace the current ordination requirement.

Lord Rooker: The Waterways Ireland budget for 2006 was approved by the North/South Ministerial Council (NSMC) at €47.84 million (£33.01 million). This is a decrease from their approved 2005 budget of €50.98 million (£34.16 million) and represents a reduction of 6.16 per cent. in euro terms and a reduction of 3.37 per cent. in terms of sterling. The budget for 2007 has not yet been considered or approved.
	Business plans and budgets are submitted by the body to their sponsor departments and when they are agreed at that level are forwarded to the respective departments of finance north and south. When approved by finance Ministers, they are then passed to the North/South Ministerial Council for formal approval.